Troides riedeli

Riedel's birdwing
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Troides
Species:
T. riedeli
Binomial name
Troides riedeli
Kirsch, 1885

Troides riedeli, or Riedel's birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to the Tanimbar Islands, part of the Maluku Islands archipelago in Indonesia.

Description

This apparently very constant species is one of the rarer forms. Body similar to that of criton, but the abdomen more sparsely yellow, especially at the sides; both wings more elongated than in the allied species.Male: forewing beneath with distinct but thin white vein-stripes, the pairs placed at the two median veins removed from the cell; the gold area of the hindwing much as in criton, but proximally cut off straight, the cell-spot much smaller, the posterior discal spots much longer and almost all the spots more deeply emarginate, the black hindmargin at the apex of the golden area and the black distal margin before the subcostal much narrower than in criton. Female : forewing at the apex of the cell and distally to it white, this area produced into stripes at the veins, at the 1. median a white double stripe, which is remote from the cell; hind-wing with dot-like cell-spot or the cell entirely black, 4 golden discal spots and behind this area a whitish grey spot; the black discal spots not completely merged together, but the yellow spots separated by them strongly scaled with black on the upper surface. — Sjerra, Timor Laut Islands, perhaps also on the other islands of this group.[2]

Biology

Very little is known of the life history and distribution.

Biogeographic realm

Australasian realm

Troides riedeli is a member of the Troides haliphron species group. The members of this clade are:

References

  1. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  2. ^ Jordan, K. in Seitz, A.(1908).The Macrolepidoptera of the World 9: The Rhopalocera of the Indo-Australian faunal region . Papilionidae 11-118. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  • Kurt Rumbucher and Oliver Schäffler (2004). Part 19, Papilionidae X. Troides III. in Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Eds. Butterflies of the World. Keltern: Goecke & Evers ISBN 978-3-937783-02-4
  • Tsukada, E. and Nishiyama, Y. (1982). Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands. Vol. I Papilionidae. (transl. K. Morishita). Plapac Co. Ltd., Tokyo. 457 pp.
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